#Dwg to cambam how to#
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So a 2D DXF of the top of your model is ideal.Д«ut back to FreeCAD.

And for most of the things in CamBam 2.5D is all you need, especially using a side profile to do a lot of what you would do with 3D milling. So that is one example of where it would be useful to have the DXF. Set up the 3D and regular Profile MOPs and all was well. I had to scale the DXF back up but other than that it was perfect if a bit cumbersome to get there. Then I pulled the STL into CamBam and set up the 3D MOP and loaded the SVG in Inkscape and exported if to DXF from Inkscape. With my tests I converted my FreeCad model to an STL (Mesh) and also exported to an SVG. There are a couple of ways to get both the STL and a DXF of the model into CamBam and I've done this in some tests and it works. That will give the 3D milling where you need it and the automatic tab generation for the rest of the Profile.Д«ut in order to do the 2.5D MOP you have to have a DXF, you cannot do it from the STL file (well you could draw an outline around the STL model in CamBam but that would be a bit tedious. Have the new Profile MOP go all the way to the bottom of the part. Then set up a Profile MOP (with auto-tab generation) and start that MOP at the point that the 3D MOP finished.

Set it to only go far enough down the stock on Z axis to get past where the 3D milling is being done. if you are trying to do something like a round over without a round over bit, or some other similar operation that would be more suited for 3D milling. Yes you can import an STL and it doesn't do a bad job of dealing with the model for 3D milling but there but certain things can only really be done with 2.5D CAM within CamBam.ДЇor example if you want to do a profile with support tabs added automatically that option is currently NOT supported with the 3D MOP in CamBam.Д«ut you can pull in an STL and do the 3D MOP where you need to on the model, e.g. Until I tried again, then I'm back to the refusing to export problem. And like I said one time it did export the DXF file and the file was correct and I could load it elsewhere. Is there some other operation that I need to perform in order to export my model/part to DXF?

#Dwg to cambam how to#

What am I missing on how to export a DXF of my model/Part? Note too I can export it as SVG (flattened) then import it into Inscape and export to DXF from there but I sure would like to cut the steps in that process down. I've tried exiting and restarting FreeCAD to see if that would get it working again, but that didn't do it. I'm not sure what I did to get it to work the one time. But that only worked the one time and after that I have been unable to get it to work again. But in the terminal that I started FreeCAD daily in it says that Export of this object type is not supported by Drawing module.Д«y the way ONE time, and ONLY one time I got an export to DXF by using ShapeTo2DView, selecting the Shape2DView in the tree and exporting the DXF. I either get NO DXF file, or I get a DXF file with 0 bytes in it. So, since I had the problem with the official release version v.16 and I'm still having the issue with the daily build and as far as I can tell I've followed the steps for properly installing the required DXF import/export files is there some other step that I am missing as far as getting a DXF. Note that I had this same problem with the v.16 release using the DXF import/export files that were installed by v.16 the first time I attempted to save a DXF file. In the Python console I see where it is getting my file name but no DXF file is produced, and NO errors are presented. dxf from the drop down and type the name of my file with the. I go to the Draft workbench, make sure that my model that I want to export is selected and then do FIle->Export select. Where possible I'm using the Path Workbench in FreeCAD but there are some things that Path cannot do just yet, hence the use of a separate CAM package. I need to be able to export my model as a DXF for certain operations in CamBam (or other CAM software).

#Dwg to cambam software#

That DXF file DOES import properly in other software including CamBam CAM software.Д«ut I'm not especially concerned about DXF import at the moment. In that DXF file there is a feature that is a Hexagon pocket. After doing that I am able to import a DXF file that I've been testing my CNC machine with but only the outline of the model is imported. Note that I used the Python console to find what version of the DXF import/export files to use saved the ones from the v.16 release and placed the 1.39 version files in the. I'm having issues with DXF file export, import 'almost' works more on that in a moment.ДЇirst here's the info on the version I'm testing with: